• Welcome Slug Club member Stephanie! She has a newborn baby, so we challenge her to sort little Eleanor into a Hogwarts House.
• Don’t forget we’ll be in Indy this weekend for Wizards Unite and at Leaky Con Boston this October! Use code MUGGLE when registering for $10 off!
• If you’ve waited in line at Universal Orlando for Hagrid’s and missed the pre-show video, watch it here!
• In anticipation of our Order of the Phoenix chapter-by-chapter analysis we take a time turner back to the early 2000s to discuss the years before the fifth Harry Potter book.
• Work on the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Illustrated Edition is already underway!
• The wait between Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix was three years (the longest gap!), and it was a critical period for the fandom.
• How did the Harry Potter fan community soar during this time?
• When did we all start discovering Harry Potter fansites?
• What were the biggest questions heading into Order of the Phoenix?
• Who was going to die in the fifth book? What did Priori Incantatem truly mean? What was next for Harry, Ron and Hermione?
• To help us out a bit, we revisited MuggleNet’s Facts About Book Five!
• What were the hosts initial thoughts of the Order of the Phoenix cover art?
• Release party reminiscing: where were we all for the release of the fifth book?
• Quizzitch: where did Harry get the name Hedwig?
• In addition to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram… We’re now on LinkedIn!
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